Improvement in the preparation of tobacco for chewing



idniidi $13M DAVID'ALONZO ALDEN, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

tears mm No. 114.901, dated May 16, 1871-.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR OHEW ING.

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Be it known that I, DAVID Anonzo Annnn, of Maiden, in the county of Middlescx and State ofMassachnsetts, have made an invention of a, new and uses fnl Preparatiouof Tobacco for Chewing Purposes; and do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description, and to embrace the nature, purposes, and advantages of my invention and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect. This invention relates to a mode of preparing finecut chewing tobacco, whereby it may becarried in the pocket and used without inconvenience, annoyance,

and mte',h0w inseparable from the practice of carrying it loose in the package in which it is sold.

My invention consists in an improved mode of pre-. paring tobacco for chewing, by mixing tobacco in a finely-divided state with gum arabic or other suitable mucilaginous substance, taken in sufiicient quantity to hold together the particles of tobacco, and 'then molding the mixture or compound thus made into lozenges or wafers of the desired size.

The tobacco, moistened and mixed with the mucilegs, is pressed into small molds of the size of the war.-

fer required. 'The wafers, after hardening, present the appearance of, and can be carfied in the pocket and used like ordinary lozenges.

I am aware that tobacco has been prepared for chewing by enveloping fine-cut tobacco in tobaccoleaves and then compressing it when enveloped, the cake or sheet thus formed being afterward cut into pieces of the size required for a show, as described in reissued Letters Patent No. 2,468, dated January 29, 1867. But my process differs from this, in that I do not use the exterior skin or layer of leaf-tobacco, which, under the process referred to, must be used in order to hold the compressed fine-cut tobacco together, but employ in lieu thereof a mucilaginous or other suitable substance, which, when mixed with the line-cut tobacco, will cause its strands or particles to adhere closely together; and in lieu of cutting the compressed cake into smaller pieces, which renders the edges of the pieces liable to crumble, I mold the mixture of tobacco and adhesive agent, while still moist or in a plastic state, into lozenges or wafers of the required size.

It is well known that in the use of fine-cut chcwing-tobacco, as at present used from the paper, much inconvenience is experienced and more or less tobacco is wasted'iu the attempt to convey it to the mouth, in addition'to which the tobacco, from its loose condition and from frequent opening of the package, 116- comes dry and powdered, and is scattered about 'the pocket-and its contents.

In thecondensed form of wafers, as I propose, tobacco may be carried in considerable quantity in the vest-pocket without attracting notice, and being in such form a resemblance to troches or some kinds of confection, may be conveyed toth'e' month without suspicion on part of observers as to its real nature.

Tobacco in this form will not deteriorate by moderate exposure to heat, cold, or dampness, and although compressed into comparatively small compass willsoon swell to its primitive bulk when moistened by saliga.

It may be found desirable to incorporate in the \vafers some flavoring or odorife-rons substance, and this may be readily accomplished in the process of preparing them.

The gum or adhesive or tenacious substance which is incorporated with the tobacco, if desired, will be found beneficial from the fact that it retains the quid in a compact state andprolongs the time required to extract its juice by chewing;

I do not, however, confine myself to the use of an adhesive substance, as the tobacco may he rolled into sheets without it.

a suitable mucilaginous or adhesive substance and then molding said mixture into lozenges or wafers, as set forth.

' DAVID ALOSZO ALDEN. I

Witnesses:

Enw. GRIFFITH, (Juan-mas H. Mums. 

